What kind of impact do you think something like what Sedona did has on the ongoing efforts for what Title IX was designed to do so many years ago? That video has been seen more than 12.2 million times. It exposed the inequities in women’s training and practice spaces for last year’s NCAA tournaments.
KLCC’s Love Cross sat down with Ida to learn more about Benching The Patriarchy.Ĭross: You start off this special recapping Oregon basketball’s Sedona Prince’s 2021 TikTok that was pretty much seen around the world. When she took the helm in 1993, Title IX had been in effect for 21 years, but things were far from equal between men’s and women’s athletic programs. She was known as a controversial figure and a fierce advocate for equality between men’s and women’s athletics at the University of Oregon. NPR Jody Runge, women's basketball coach at the University of Oregon from 1993-2001, at her home in Portland, Oregon on May 24, 2022.īut Coach Runge’s success on the court tell only part of her story.
Runge was inducted into the University of Oregon Athletics Hall of Fame in 2021. 21 Oregon State 69-60 at McArthur Court on March 8, 1996. A new record was set when 9,738 watched Oregon defeat No. The success of her teams helped home attendance grow considerably, as the Ducks averaged nearly 6,000 fans per game in 1999-2000. Runge finished her tenure as one of the most successful coaches in school history. Oregon made eight-straight NCAA Tournament appearances under Runge from 1994-2001 and won back-to-back Pac-10 championships in 1998-2000. She was named Pac-10 Coach of the Year in her first season. The special features the reporting of former NPR correspondent Emily Harris, and Eugene-based audio journalist Ida Hardin, and tells the story of Oregon Women’s Basketball coach Jody Runge. It focuses on how Title IX played out in the women’s basketball team at the University of Oregon. Sunday, June 12, KLCC and NPR bring you a special one-hour program: Benching The Patriarchy: 50 Years of Title IX. With athletics being considered an integral part of education, this federal law gave female athletes the right to equal opportunity in sports, from elementary schools to colleges and universities. On June 23, 1972, Title IX banned discrimination based on sex in educational institutions.
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